Nutrition, Microbiota and Noncommunicable Diseases [PDF]
Nutrients, 2020 The advent of new sequencing technologies has inspired the foundation of novel research to ascertain the connections between the microbial communities that reside in our gut and some physiological and pathological conditions [...]
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Healthy lifestyles and noncommunicable diseases: Nutrition, the life‐course, and health promotion
Lifestyle Medicine, 2021 Cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases, targeted by Sustainable Development Goal 3.4, afflict millions of people and account for the highest global morbidity and mortality.
Marlon E. Cerf
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Moving towards a population health approach to the primary prevention of common mental disorders [PDF]
, 2012 There is a need for the development of effective universal preventive approaches to the common mental disorders, depression and anxiety, at a population level.
A Bradford Hill +58 more
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The Untapped Power of Soda Taxes: Incentivizing Consumers, Generating Revenue, and Altering Corporate Behavior [PDF]
, 2017 Globally, soda taxes are gaining momentum as powerful interventions to discourage sugar consumption and thereby reduce the growing burden of obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Gostin, Lawrence O., Roache, Sarah A.
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Ten years of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: progress in the Americas
Salud Pública de México, 2017 The objective of this article is to analyze the progress made in the Americas in the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) after its tenth anniversary of entry into force.
Adriana Blanco +3 more
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023 This article describes progress in tackling noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the Americas since the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) started its NCD program 25 years ago. Changes in the epidemiology of NCDs, NCD policies, health service capacity,
Silvana Luciani +14 more
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Can Law Improve Prevention and Treatment of Cancer? [PDF]
, 2011 The December 2011 issue of Public Health (the Journal of the Royal Society for Public Health) contains a symposium entitled: Legislate, Regulate, Litigate? Legal approaches to the prevention and treatment of cancer.
Gostin, Lawrence O. +2 more
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Preventing type 2 diabetes mellitus in Qatar by reducing obesity, smoking, and physical inactivity: mathematical modeling analyses. [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to estimate the impact of reducing the prevalence of obesity, smoking, and physical inactivity, and introducing physical activity as an explicit intervention, on the burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), using ...
A Abdullah +27 more
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The need to improve implementation and use of lifestyle surveillance systems for planning prevention activities: an analysis of the Italian Regions [PDF]
, 2016 Objectives: To describe the level of use of lifestyle surveillance systems in Italy and to identify predictors of their use by the Italian Regions for planning and monitoring purposes.
D'Andrea, Elvira +6 more
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Tuberculosis Comorbidity with Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases [PDF]
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, 2015 The 18th WHO Global Tuberculosis Annual Report indicates that there were an estimated 8.6 million incident cases of tuberculosis (TB) in 2012, which included 2.9 million women and 530,000 children. TB caused 1.3 million deaths including 320,000 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected people; three-quarters of deaths occurred in Africa and Southeast
Matthew Bates +2 more
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